Theo Verelst Current Interests

My interests are all long term interests, and can be summed up as follows,
seperated in more personal and more directly professionally oriented interests:

Neurology (the human brain), computation models, nanobiology/technology
and quantum physics (in that combination but not necessarily in that order).

application of computer technology towards the above, and for some
'creative' applications such as high end computer graphics and sound synthesis,
which incidently can both directly be related to the above.

Correct translation of biblical sources (hebrew and greek), and bringing
forward the results of it.

Dealing with the whole area of christianity in a way that does justice
to truth and leads to lasting good results.

Beta Oriented Scientific Interests

I'll take a short time to explain both areas, and point to some more
links and references.

A major interest in computer/electrical engineering, physics and biology
are 'neural networks', because they suppossedly represent the way the human
brain processes and stores information. I found out pretty soon when I
looked into them, having a healty scientific apetite for interesting research,
that neural networks cannot accurately represent what actually goes on
in the brain, not even when they are included in expert systems or similar
environments.The main reasons for this are the absense of timing in neural
nets, and therefore the impossibility of accurately modeling the time behaviour
of neurons (which interact in a physical fashion where time is not a negligible
factor, and cannot be simply replaced by causality), and the very limited
way of growing connections between neurons, and the absense of multi layered
structures, which are quite likely to appear in something as complex as
the human brain. And evidently 100.000.000.000 neurons cannot be accurately
simulated on any computer system in decades to come, not even with the
most simplistic binary transfer function/ fire rule neurons with limited
connectivity.

Nanobiology as I refer to it here occupies itself amoungst others with
two major domains: actuators/sensors connections in the body, and the mechanisms
involved in transfering information between neurons, both in the buildup
of the dendrites and axons, as in the cell protoplasm, involving membrane
interactions. In fact, nanobiology is involved in very essential other
areas, such as mytosis, where it describes the nano-level mechanisms for
actualizing genetically stored (dna) information during cell division.
My interest lies primarily in the area of neuron (brain) functioning, though
I very much realize the relevance of other areas which are not in my area
of focus.

I'm not at all a biologist, but I've taken time to read about this material,
since it offered a very interesting angle on the way the brain deals with
the growing of dendrites and other inter neuron connections, and because
it may well offer insight in neuronal 'firing' behaviour, i.e. when information
is passed between neurons, through which channels, and in which forms.

Considering the possibility of connections which extend over large areas
of the brain (possibly circular) leads to thoughts about the sensitivity
of such large scale structures when all their elements (neurons) are near
the 'trigger level' (firing), or when patterns of information are regularly
transfered over large distances in an almost symmetrical way, so that smal
anomalities in the transfer over alternate routes can be measured by signal
comparison in terms of arrival time, orientation, or amplitude. Since the
mechanisms involved in neuronal transfer of information (e.g. the mechanical
tranfer of binary information over the rims of microtubules, or the possible
carrying of solitons through the same, or all chemical processes involved
in membrane interactions) almost invaribly take place at a scale where
quantum effects are not negligble, it is possible that a large algomerate
of neurons can act as quantum state amplifier, and that at least it is
possible to observe effects at a larger scale that have their origins at
the quantum level.

Knowing that brain wave patterns are directly related to perception
of music, and that the way musical instruments can be modeled (as waveguides
with non-linear interactions) is indeed very comparable to neuronal interaction,
and that physical modeling of musical instruments is related to the geometrical
properties of intruments, which can be modeled by powerfull graphics systems,
and which can be simulated also using 3d (and higher) geometric techniques
and that highly capable computer systems are needed both for high end geometrical
processing and for computing the wave patterns when simulating musical
instruments accurately, the first and second interest are directly and
logically connected.

In short I think both the line of synthesis (and actualization) of large
systems that have the capacity to simulate musical instruments (this is
a very practically feasible subject, such synthesisers are currently becoming
available), the line of linking these systems with the physical and geometrical
systems that they are supposed to represent (and the theoretics to make
that link), and the line of starting to have a feel for what goes on in
the brain, and to produce theoretical frames for that (non-linearly linked,
multi layered, large scale interaction based systems, and their computer
realization) are highly interesting subjects, and can be quite practically
dealt with at this point in time.

The link with quantum dynamics and with the progress made in biological
(medical) science, to assert possible theorectical models, and to verify
wether the brain indeed posseses the properties that could be synthesized
(simulated) using these techniques, is a more long term interest, for which
I have some experiments in mind, but which encompass scientific areas where
I feel I currently have insufficient expertise myself. Al the more reason
to think about cooperation with those that do.

Biblical Interests

Though these are still very much subjects I want to be involved in,
there has been another long lasting interest, in christianity, that has
recenty revived and led to a part time effort for the last year or so to
consider the translation of the bible as we know it. In short, I found
that both in the greek and in the hebrew there are passages concerning
very essential areas of life where there are major errors in translation.
Not exegesis, not minor errors, but major translation errors of large consequence
to the perception of what this book has to say the about subjects discussed.

Admittedly, this may not be of primary interest to all, and it is a
bold statement to make, but the effect of the these errors on the make
up of (western) society as a whole is major, and at this point in time
I have sufficient material to make what I have to say stand against all
types of decent Popperian attempts to falsify it that I've encountered
thusfar, and in fact as time progresses I am strenghtened in what I think.

These are in short the reasons I have dedicated time to the subject,
and that I intend t do more so. In fact I would be very interested in ways
to work on both translation of the greek and hebrew, its most obvious interpretation,
and dedicating myself to sharing the practical consiquences of it. My own
opinion about this is that the greek translation is probably best done
in cooperation with those who don't need to rely on lexicons and look up
every noun or verb for its possible declension and tense, and that in fact
the greek that is used is quite straightforward, and that there is only
one thing to consider in all this, that the greek language has been changed
during the first few centuries AD (a fact that everyone with a lexicon
containing dates for its examples can verify) because so called ;'church
fathers' have had their own thoughts about the writings of people who had
no high spun ideas of the letter they wrote, and who wanted to make something
clear, not to make themselves a position or name (they already had that)
by changing the course of literature.

The hebrew is a bit of a different story, and I've had only about 3/4
of a year or so of experience with it, but that suffices to observe that
also in our translation of the old testament there are very noticable differences
in what various lexicons have to say about certain words and what our translation
sais. And again about very relevant subjects.

Since the christian faith (in various, possibly perverted variations)
has a profound effect on our society, both historcaly and nowadays, it
pays to at least get the basis of it right, and not to rely to much on
what people other than have started a good implementation of it have to
say, when they are just maintaining their position of power.

I personally believe that what it realy has to say in unpolluted, straightforward
fashion is very valuable, a fact which is easily veryfied by comparison
(ever considered living in a society whe your women are supposed to hide
even their faces, where having a party is considered to be contrary to
the law, and where violence is the rule instead of the exception, or living
in an environment that is notorious for its corruption , abuse and exploitation?),
and for the time being want to give time to finding that straightforward
translation (and its implications) and sharing it.

That also means that I want my work to be verifyable itself, and that
I want to do as good a job at it as reasonably possible, and that means
that it should be scientifically checked, and preferably be done in a environment
where it is most fruitful.

Considering the above, at this time I'd like to put emphasis on the
Hebrew, though its the whole picture I'm after. Needless to say I'll take
on work in other areas to pay the rent if there is a need for that, and
that the interests stated above still very much apply. But for the coming
period I'd like to have a main focus as mentioned.

Some Questions that Interest Me

While I'm at it, there's another subject that has surprised me. It is
a widely but supposedly not well known fact that there is a group of people
from international banks who meet in Basel (near the central station, I've
seen the building), who singlehandledly with maybe a dozen or so arrange
major international banking affairsm including the determining of currency
exchange rate. I know the facility is there, I read from reliable sources
that at a point in time (I guess the text was from some ten years ago)
that that was the situation, that a handfull of people have been bestowed
with so much power, but most of all that it is hidden, totally undemocratic,
and not even under a posteriori control of some democratic organ.

At that time I read about a lot more outrageous situations, that at
that time I wasn't aware of, and found hard to believe (unless you have
a preference for conspiricy theories, or are generally paranoid), and that
were currently verified by simple general encyclopedia lookup, such as
the funding of several wars and the bringing about of the crisis by certain
groups of people in the banking world with evidently unscrupulous greed
for power.

Though I would say that a general encyclopedia
is probably not unreliable in talking about these things, I'd like more
information on these subjects, since my usually quite successful library
queries over various major libraries have not given me a single reference
to a book that actually described the structure of the (international)
banking world (and I looked pretty good for it, and its not the first time
I work a library index), though I guess there would be ample interest for
it, and quite some people who could write about it. That brings me to another
interesting phenomena, that is that I tried to find books written by Phoebe
Courtney in the Netherlands, and even though the subjects are quite interesting
(e.g. NATO) and not at all limited to US interest I didn't find a single
of her books, except for two small ones about minor subjects at the Univ.
of Amsterdam. If check the library of congress however, I find dozens of
copies of various of her works, to say the least: remarkable. Amazing that
in the 'free western world' such subjects are not openly discussed, and
that the unification of Europe get so much public attention, while such
an incredible concentration of power remains completely obscure, and is
in nature so undemocratic. (unless my sources are lying, of course, which
is why I'd like some more information).